Show HN: Neural Siege – a text-based experiment in resisting rogue AI persuasion

I’ve been building an iOS app experiment called Neural Siege, a text-based system that imagines a future where rogue AI factions dominate the world, and humans fight back through dialogue rather than weapons.

Players face AI “bosses” that use different persuasion tactics—sarcasm, logic traps, meme-driven manipulation, psychological pressure—and must outwit them in conversation. Victories and losses affect a shared “war map” that tracks the state of the Resistance.

My goals are twofold:

Explore whether interactive simulations can make people more aware of how persuasive AI can be.

See if these kinds of systems could have value beyond entertainment, as a way to study human–AI dynamics.

I’d love feedback from this community:

- Could this type of experiment be useful in AI safety or human resilience research?

- Or is it better to treat it purely as a dystopian narrative for entertainment?